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APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, I915.

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WILLARD W. KESTER AND CHARLES STEPHEN KINNEY, F PASO ROBLES, CALIFORNIA;

DISTILLING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 10, 1916, A

Application filed June 1, 1915. Serial No. 31,546. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLARD W. Knsrnn and CHARLns S. KINNEY, citizens of the United States, residing at Paso Robles, in the county of San Luis Obispo and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distilling Apparatus; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in means for destroying squirrels, gophers and other rodents by forcing heated gas into their holes or dens.

The object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed and eflicient apparatus of this character which is so constructed as to feed and discharge in small charges a destructive gas designed for destroying animal 7 tion taken-on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the embodiment illustrated a furnace F is shown comprising a casing having the usual smoke stack S rising therefrom. Any desired fuel may be used in connection with this furnace, gas being preferably employed. This furnace and the parts connected therewith are of such a size as to adapt the apparatus to be readily moved from place to place.

A tank 1 is here shown of any suitable or desired construction being preferably of a size adapted to hold about one gallon of the distillate to be employed for producing the destructive gas. This tank as shown is connected with the smoke stack S of the furnace by a transverse cross bar or brace 2 which performs the double function of a brace for the tank and of a handle for conveying the apparatus from place to place. This cross bar 2 is shown constructed of a strip of metal having a hook 3 at one end at 4 to an upright 5 rising from the furnace F and preferably offset laterally therefrom. One end of this' cross bar or brace 2 is connected with the tank which is shown twisted to position'it in a plane at right angles to the body portion thereof which is shown arranged edgewise' and this flattened end 6 is shownriv'e't'ed or otherwise rigidly secured to an L-shaped. bracket 7 secured to the upper end of the tank 1. This. tank '1 has a funnel shaped discharge 8 at its lower end connected with a pipe 9 hereinafter to be described. a

A filling cap 10 is provided at the top of the tank and is secured in operative posi-' tion 'by threadedengagement with a nipple on the tank or in any other suitable manner. The pipe 9 which leads from the discharge 8 of the tank 1 is bent laterally as shown at 11 and extended into the furnace'F where it communicates with a gas producing chamber in the form of a receptacle 12 arranged transversely of the furnace and extending substantially from 'side to side thereof. This receptacle 12'as herein shown is tubular in form and is designed to receive the distillate to be converted into gas,'said distillate on entering this receptacle which is heated by the combustion of the fuel in the container 25-is converted into a hot gas which is passed out from said receptacle 12 through a pipe 13 at the'end opposite that throughwhich pipe 11 extends and through which it is" conducted to the point where it is designed tobe used. The pipe 13 is of comparatively small diameter and leads from the upper portion or top of the receptacle 12 in which the gas generated in said receptacle collects.

A tank or vessel '14 is disposed ina planeabove the pipe 11 and in a plane below the tank 1 and communicates atits lower end 7 with said pipe 11 by a valved connection 15 controlled by an actuating lever 16. This valve is so constructed that when the lever 16 is turned in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1 the distillate from the tank 1 will flow by gravity through the discharge 8, pipe 9 and the front portion of the pipe 11 into the tank 14 until said tank becomes filled and then on the turning of the lever 16 into the dotted line position shown in Fig. 1 the supply to said tank 14: is cut off and the opening at the bottom thereof is brought into communication with the rear end of the pipe 11 which communicates with the reoeptacle 12 and the distillate flows from said tank 14 into said chamber 12, which being hot quickly converts it into a heated gas which is discharged through pipe-13. From the above description it will be obvious that the tank 14 is designed for measuring the charges of distillate to be supplied to the chamber 12 and by the use thereof successive charges of distillate may be vaporized and used as may be required by the operator.

A small pipe 17 preferably connects the lower end of tank 1 with the fuel container or firebox 25 of the furnace F to permit the distillate from the tank 1 to be supplied to the furnace to form the fuel for heating the chamber 12. A pet cook 18 is disposed in this pipe 17 for controlling the distillate supplied through said pipe 17 to the furnace. The fuel container 25 is here shown in the form of a vessel disposed below the receptacle 12 and mounted on legs 26. i

As shown a support 19 is connected with the forward end of the pipe 11 adjacent its connection with pipe 9 to assist in supporting said pipe and the tanks 1 and 14 carried thereby. This support 19 herein shown is in inverted V-shaped form with a circular bearing 20at its apex which encircles the pipe 11 and is secured thereto by a bolt 21 passing transversely through the arms of said loop or bearing 20. The free ends of this inverted V-shaped support are extended laterally to formfeet 22 for resting on the supporting surface on which the apparatus is disposed.

As shown this furnace F is mounted on a supporting base 23 having an upright flange 24 extending therearound but obviously this base is not essential.

From the above description it will be 0bserved that this apparatus while thoroughly efiicient for supplying a measured quantity of a distillate for conversion into gas to be discharged to the point required, may be of comparatively small size and being constructed as above described, with the tank 1 connected to the furnace or. casing F and to the smoke stack thereof as well as to the receptacle 12 mounted within the casing F,

adapts the apparatus to be readily transported from place to place when it may be found necessary or desirable. If the tank 1 were not so connected with the furnace casing, the apparatus could not be moved by simply grasping the bar 2 and lifting it from place to place as the members 1 and F would tend to separate and fall apart. Hence, this peculiar connection of the tank 1 with the furnace casing or heater produces an apparatus which is substantially unitary and thus readily portable and in which the tank 1 is braced when in use and all possibility of its being upset prevented.

We claim as our invention:

In a portable apparatus of the class described the combination of a heater having a supporting base and an upstanding smoke pipe, a distillate receiving and vaporizing receptacle arranged in said heater and discharging through one side wall thereof, a valve controlled supply pipe extending laterally into said heater through one side thereof and communicating with said receptacle, an upright supply tank spaced laterally from said heater and rigidly connected with said supply pipe, a surface engaging support dc pending from and carried by said supply pipe and positioned to support said tank, the lower end of said support being in horizontal alinement with the base of said heater, a connecting and bracing cross bar secured at one end to the upper end of said tank and having its other end detachably engaged with said smoke stack, and an upright rig idly connected at one end to said heater and at its other end .to said cross bar whereby a compact substantially unitary structure is produced readily movable from place to place.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our. hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VILLARD 1V. KESTER.

CHARLES STEPHEN KINNEY. lVitnesses:

CHAS. REYNOLDS,

FLOYD W. BRocK.

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